Saturday, October 10, 2015

Taxed to Death? Weed don't Care

A few miles down the street, albeit a rural street, is a ten
acre parcel with hurricane fencing, razor wire on top and security cameras in
measurable distances across the entire perimeter. The strange thing is (beyond the fact that a
prison like structure is in the middle of nowhere) is that within the gated
community of nothing is exactly that, nothing.
There are acres and acres of dirt.
The dirt is weed free at least for now.

There is some speculation amongst the neighbors, a salty lot
by any means, but they all agree that the vacant and sparton (spelling help
would be appreciated) dirt will be the center of a buzzing and thriving
community, populated entirely …. by weed.
When California decriminalized Marijuana
this entrepreneurial farmer decided it would be a good idea to get ready for
the day when California
finished what was started and allow for the recreational use of the drug. Is drug too harsh a word here, should I be
more understanding of the “recreational” side of this so called entry medicine
or perhaps I should move toward the word treatment and forgo any further
missteps in relation to the promises of this “wonder” potion.

Governor Brown recently outlined the rules that would apply
for marketing, usage and taxing the wonder weed as it will soon be legal to not
only use it, but grow it commercially.
It is already near the top of the most profitable crop in the state but
now it will be a legally grown and monitored commodity that should make many in
the state very happy indeed.

Let’s get real here, just for a few moments of typed
rhetoric at least. This country is not
that consistent with its policies in relation to harmful substances. Alcohol has been mostly legal with exception
of a few years of prohibition. Tobacco
has always been legal with new smokeless water based, nicotine filled inhalers
flooding the market. Over the counter
drugs, under the counter drugs and drugs that you have to reach way over the
counter to get can be easily gotten with a sympathetic doctor’s note. So why
not weed?

Let’s forget the fact that every single one of the so called
drugs above are serial killers but the use of those substances are so ingrained
that any thought of changing the American diet is fraught with political and
economic suicide for any politician who
dares to intervene with the billions dollar drug train. If he or she wasn’t taken down politically I
can think of a few imaginative ways to remove that particular problem….so I
also think the corporate politicos can imagine as well.

Politics and drugs have been a mainstay within the American
mainstream since the Boston Tea Party attempted to dump the processed leaves
into the harbor. The tea tax had become
too much for our early forefathers. All
they wanted was to escape for a few minutes in the warm liquid of
forgetfulness, without the burdensome weight of excessive taxes, which amounted
to about 25%. By the way tea is
addictive, if you don’t believe me try giving it up after sipping the fluids
everyday, morning, noon and night.

Cigarettes are facing a similar dilemma. If you’re a smoker and I’m not talking
salmon, your paying federal taxes of about a $1 per pack and depending on the
state your in, not mental state but that might apply as well, you could be
paying as high as an additional $4 per pack.
The question then arises; if it’s legal why tax it so usuriously? I am not a smoker, I don’t like to sit next
to smokers, don’t like to be in breathing distance of a smoker but I think they
are being wrongly targeted with the message that “we will let you smoke if you
pay our way” The same is true with
almost everything it seems. If we, the
people really want to use it then they tax it, place fees on it or make it
impossible for us to enjoy it… kind of like the roads and water.

Marijuana maybe legal but there will be a tax and the
provisions of that tax may only help those of the upper class who figure out
ways to fence their properties to protect their commodities and rake in the
profits from what used to be an illicit practice.

The politicians make the rules, they make the laws, but in
the end they very rarely have to abide by them.
They make exceptions for themselves, creating a class of society no
different than that of Royalty, they are a protected class and the rest of us
are simple bondsman, eking out a living while our gas prices pretty much stay
the same but the added tax makes buying difficult. Our habits, good and bad are taxed so that
the enjoyment of life is nothing but a struggle. We are forced to live to work rather than
working to live, having to procure a daily subsistence while our politicians
create new ways to separate our money from our hands and into theirs.

To be honest I don’t care one way or another about the
legalization of weed. What I do care
about is the unpredictability of our government and the conspiratorial means by
which they are destroying our liberties by taxing us into slavery.

My advise…get your guns, get your booze, get your reinforced
doors, change your identities and put your holdings under your mattress, so
that when you are busted for possession of any of the above “legal”
intoxicants, while driving over a pot hole ridden road, guzzling your brew and
rolling your joint, the MAN wont know who you are….